10. What is the difference between soft and hard materials?

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The difference between hard and soft materials:
Hard material
Soft material
Hard materials are those materials that are difficult to crush, chop, distort, or scrape. Soft materials are those materials that can be crushed, sliced, bent, or scraped with ease.
It is difficult to compressed, cut, bent, or scratched. It can be easily compressed, cut, bent, or scratched.
Examples- Iron, steel, wood, stone, brick diamond etc. Examples- sponge, cotton, wool, foam, rubber, butter, chalk.

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Hard material	Soft material
Hard materials are those materials that are difficult to crush, chop, distort, or scrape.	Soft materials are those materials that can be crushed, sliced, bent, or scraped with ease.
It is difficult to compressed, cut, bent, or scratched.	It can be easily compressed, cut, bent, or scratched.
Examples- Iron, steel, wood, stone, brick diamond etc.	Examples- sponge, cotton, wool, foam, rubber, butter, chalk.